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# melon

noun (melon, melons)

«melon» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A melon is a big round or oval fruit with a hard skin and a sweet, juicy inside full of seeds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#m1)
2. Watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew are kinds of melon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#m2)

### In the lessons

fruit counted, weighed, sold or cut into equal slices; in everyday life a summer fruit for picnics; in science a fruit that grows on a vine and is mostly water

### Examples

- A melon costs 3 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x1)
- She cut the melon into 8 slices. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x2)
- The farmer sold 40 melons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x3)
- Each melon weighs 2 kg. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x4)
- We ate cold watermelon at the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x5)
- A melon grows on a long vine on the ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x6)
- Scoop out the seeds before you eat the melon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x7)
- Tom spat a melon seed across the yard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x8)

### Note

Counted fruit or weight per melon. Cutting into slices points to division or fractions. Trap: slices are parts, not whole melons. Countable: a melon, two melons; «some melon» means some pieces of it.

## In Jewish tradition

fruit counted, weighed, sold or cut into equal slices; in everyday life a summer fruit for picnics; in science a fruit that grows on a vine and is mostly water

### Examples

- We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (Torah NUM.11.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/melon/#x1)

### Note

Counted fruit or weight per melon. Cutting into slices points to division or fractions. Trap: slices are parts, not whole melons. Countable: a melon, two melons; «some melon» means some pieces of it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «melon» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«melon» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/melon.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «melon» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/melon/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«melon» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/melon.html) on Mova free.